After being struck by lightning and being in the world of women

When Gu Yunkai saw Bai Songji appear, he couldn't help but sneer.

"What? Qinglan's fifth princess, are you afraid, so you sent an unknown person to follow this princess?"

Bai Songji said, "Whether I am a nobody or not, wait until you defeat me and we'll tell you."

As he said that, he raised the spear in his hand and attacked Gu Yunkai first.

Seeing this, Gu Yunkai raised his red tassel spear and blocked it.

The two started fighting back and forth.

The reason why Gu Yunkai dared to challenge her was naturally because she had excellent martial arts skills and was confident that she could defeat Zhong Ruhuang.

Bai Songji's family has been full of military generals for generations, and each of them has good talents.

So when facing Gu Yunkai's attack, she remained calm and even suppressed Gu Yunkai slightly.

Gu Yunkai naturally noticed it as well.

I feel a little heavy in my heart.

It seems that she still doesn't know enough about His Royal Highness the King of Martial Arts.

The person in front of her is obviously also her confidant.

Zhong Ruhuang was watching the battle on the top of the city wall, and naturally could see that Bai Songji's fighting power was obviously higher than Gu Yunkai's.

In the blink of an eye, Bai Songji and Gu Yun fought for dozens of rounds.

She seized the opportunity, shot Gu Yunkai off his horse with one shot, and reached out to grab her.

Gu Yunkai knew that he was no match for Bai Songji, so when she reached out to grab him, he rolled on the ground and dodged her hand.

At the same time, he poked the red tasseled spear into the ground, leaped up, and sat on the horse's back again.

This time, she didn't fight, but rode away on her horse.

Seeing this, Bai Songji did not chase after him, but turned around and returned to the city.

If she pursued, she would fall into a trap.

Her mind is clear.

Defeating Gu Yunkai and making her lose face was enough to make her happy.

She is happy.

Gu Yunkai was not so happy.

She didn't expect that she would lose.

She even wanted to take advantage of her defeat to run away and lure Bai Songji to chase her, so that she could gang up on her and capture her to threaten Zhong Ruhuang.

Unexpectedly, Bai Songji did not chase after him.

Zhong Ruhuang looked at Bai Songji who was on the top of the city wall and looked at her with admiration.

"Well done, General Bai."

Bai Songji smiled naively, "Thank you for the compliment, Your Highness."

Her participation in the battle helped her get promoted a lot in official rank, and she could even be called a general.

Xia Yu had been watching, and when he saw Gu Yunkai lose so much face without even touching a hair of Zhong Ruhuang, he couldn't help but burst into laughter and ran to Gu Yunkai's tent to laugh at her.

"Gu Yunkai, you are really amazing. How come you were not trampled to death by the horse when you were knocked off its horse?"

Gu Yunkai's face was dark, his teeth were chattering, and he wished he could kill Xia Yu.

"Xia Yu, you bastard, get out of here!"

Xia Yu was very happy at the moment and didn't care that Gu Yunkai called her a concubine. She left with a very arrogant smile.

At the same time, she also understood that the fifth princess of Qinglan was no pushover, and she thought that the rumors that honest people were easy to bully were all false.

As for the plot to marry the husband and take a concubine, I'm afraid it's not that true.

Xia Yu wanted to reach Chaotian Pass and achieve great things.

But she also understood that Chaotian Pass was not so easy to capture.

The style of this fifth princess is different from that of General Sun.

……

Emperor Showa, who was far away in Chaotian City, received Zhong Ruhuang's memorial first.

When he saw what Zhong Ruhuang mentioned in the memorial, he was angry at first, but after reading the content clearly, he was stunned.

In her eyes, her only true love is Emperor Zhaoxian, and the rest of the men are just spice in her life and tools for having children.

She didn't care what they were like.

Moreover, when their wives died, they were supposed to remain widows for the rest of their lives, and they never thought about what would happen if there were too many widowed men.

In Zhong Ruhuang's memorial, the number of widows in Chaotian Pass over the past decade was detailed, including the number of newborn baby girls each year.

In Chaotian Pass alone, there are nearly 600,000 widowed men. What about the entire Qinglan Dynasty?

Emperor Showa's expression became solemn.

In the past, the imperial court did not encourage widows to remarry, and even believed that it was natural for them to remain widows. In some places, they would even give them chastity arches.

She had never thought about this kind of thing before and thought it was natural.

And now...

Emperor Showa pondered for a moment, then had someone bring the population files of the Qinglan Dynasty for the past ten years and looked through them one by one.

In the ancient world, population was very important. If a country had no newborns, it meant that the country was not far from destruction.

Emperor Showa spent several hours reading through the population files of the Qinglan Dynasty for the past ten years. She rubbed her forehead tiredly.

"Hou Songlin, Prime Minister Xuan, Grand Tutor, and the six ministers, come to the palace to see me."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Hou Songlin hurried downstairs and arranged for someone to call Grand Tutor Jin and the others into the palace.

When Emperor Showa thought about the men who had been widowed for so many years in the Qinglan Dynasty and the number of newborn baby girls born every year, his face looked very unhappy.

In the face of these problems, Zhong Ruhuang's taking the lead in taking a widower as a servant at Chaotian Pass seems insignificant.

If necessary, she, as the empress, must take the lead.

Soon, Grand Tutor Jin and the others all entered the palace.

That night, the Xuan Zheng Hall was brightly lit all night long.

When Grand Tutor Jin and the others learned that what Emperor Showa wanted to discuss was the issue of a widow remarrying, they all disagreed at first.

To them, men are nothing more than accessories and are not worth their time and effort.

But when Emperor Showa laid all the data in front of them, their faces changed.

This concerns the development of the Qinglan Dynasty. No matter how indifferent they are to men, they all become serious now.

So they discussed it all night, considered everything, and then left.

Emperor Showa was prepared to take the lead in officially issuing a decree allowing widows to remarry, and he was prepared to set an example himself.

Jin Taishi and other high-ranking officials of the imperial court also intend to set an example.

Everything is for the development of the Qinglan Dynasty. Marrying a widower is nothing.

As soon as the decree allowing widows to remarry was issued, the battle report from Chaotian Pass reached Chaotian City.

Emperor Showa read the battle report and said nothing.

As long as Lao Wu guards Chaotian Pass and does not take the initiative to attack, there will be no big problems.

She had already given the order in advance that if anything happened in Chaotian Pass, several nearby states would quickly send troops to rescue Chaotian Pass.

In order to ensure that the decree allowing widows to remarry was promulgated, Emperor Showa set an example himself by marrying a widow into the palace and gave her the rank of a fifth-rank concubine.

The widow that Emperor Showa married was naturally very particular. First of all, she had to have a good family background, and secondly, she had to have a good horoscope. He asked the Imperial Astronomical Observatory to match the horoscopes, and only then was Xu Qingli, the eldest son of the Supreme Court Minister who had been widowed for a year, chosen. He was then carried into the palace in a sedan chair.

Xu Qingli was a fifth-rank Zijun, and her mother was a third-rank Dali Temple Minister, so she was able to live in the side hall of the Xinghe Palace in the West Six Palaces.